Aaron
@flowersforelon.bsky.social
I am interested in urbanism, sustainability and the Beautiful Game (Rugby League).
I am from Queensland.
He / him
I am from Queensland.
He / him
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Here's my counter argument: Do data centers have an environmental impact? Yes, in water, in energy, in ewaste. Arguing about the scale of that impact is fundamentally missing the point because it is an impact that would not be there at any scale if not for the extensive AI use...
October 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here's my counter argument: Do data centers have an environmental impact? Yes, in water, in energy, in ewaste. Arguing about the scale of that impact is fundamentally missing the point because it is an impact that would not be there at any scale if not for the extensive AI use...
This is fantastic and anyone with a passing interest in AI should watch it.
in my humble moderate opinion i think sam altman should be tried at the hague and everyone at openAI should be tried as an accessory
ChatGPT made me delusional
YouTube video by Eddy Burback
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:48 AM
This is fantastic and anyone with a passing interest in AI should watch it.
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The Americans can now go to bed to get up early for day two of the World Series Test
October 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The Americans can now go to bed to get up early for day two of the World Series Test
Chopperoos win the TimbersportsWorld Championship yet again
YouTube video by SBS News
youtube.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Hey Joe
Where you goin in those checkerboard vans
Hey Joe
Where you goin in those checkerboard vans
I’m goin down to punch my drywall
I heard a girl say Hawthorne Heights is a shit band
Where you goin in those checkerboard vans
Hey Joe
Where you goin in those checkerboard vans
I’m goin down to punch my drywall
I heard a girl say Hawthorne Heights is a shit band
October 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Hey Joe
Where you goin in those checkerboard vans
Hey Joe
Where you goin in those checkerboard vans
I’m goin down to punch my drywall
I heard a girl say Hawthorne Heights is a shit band
Where you goin in those checkerboard vans
Hey Joe
Where you goin in those checkerboard vans
I’m goin down to punch my drywall
I heard a girl say Hawthorne Heights is a shit band
Logging on to Bluesky and almost immediately seeing more of The Most Infuriating Shit Ever.
you read what I wrote and are quite reasonably going “hrm no that can’t be right” but
![The mother of a 15-year-old whose picture was used in a promotional post that featured a large "Get Threads" button said: "For me it was a picture of my daughter going to school.
I had no idea Instagram had picked it up and are using it as a promotion. It's absolutely disgusting. She is a minor."
She said she would have refused consent and
"not for any money in the world would I let them use a girl dressed in a school uniform to get people on to [its platform]".
With 267 followers, her Instagram account usually had modest reach but the post of her child attracted nearly 7,000 views, 90% from non-followers, half of whom were aged over 44 and 90% of whom were men.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e6n7jxtu2qrhwvp3j6ib6sq6/bafkreifubzlsmsmile66hgipb2iik7brevojazghbkvjc5o3ivnlowf6u4@jpeg)
September 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Logging on to Bluesky and almost immediately seeing more of The Most Infuriating Shit Ever.
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It's not like Radiohead haven't been asked nicely over and over and over again to stop being bastards about this, for years, and their response is always condescending bullshit www.nme.com/news/music/b...
BDS movement call for boycott of Radiohead's 2025 tour
The pro-Palestine BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement has called for a boycott of Radiohead’s newly announced 2025 tour.
www.nme.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:37 AM
It's not like Radiohead haven't been asked nicely over and over and over again to stop being bastards about this, for years, and their response is always condescending bullshit www.nme.com/news/music/b...
It's been a while since I practiced law, but I believe the maxim: "LMAO, eat shit dickhead" applies here.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Ben Roberts-Smith loses final legal bid to overturn defamation ruling
The High Court rejects a special leave application from Mr Roberts-Smith to challenge a Federal Court ruling against his bid to sue the Nine network over allegations about war crimes.
www.abc.net.au
September 4, 2025 at 6:49 AM
It's been a while since I practiced law, but I believe the maxim: "LMAO, eat shit dickhead" applies here.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Weird I'd have thought the Official Government Antisemitism Czar might have had something to say about the literal neonazis marching and attacking people yesterday. 🤔
September 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Weird I'd have thought the Official Government Antisemitism Czar might have had something to say about the literal neonazis marching and attacking people yesterday. 🤔
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My main takeaway from replies to my LLM post yesterday is that a lot of people are now tying a lot of their self worth and/or creative processes to a black box tool that’s either gonna crash out or go up in cost exponentially at a later point in the ‘disruptor’ playbook.
August 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
My main takeaway from replies to my LLM post yesterday is that a lot of people are now tying a lot of their self worth and/or creative processes to a black box tool that’s either gonna crash out or go up in cost exponentially at a later point in the ‘disruptor’ playbook.
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HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)?
Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts!
NEW POST -->>>
Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts!
NEW POST -->>>
Big tech’s selective disclosure masks AI’s real climate impact
Google claims to have disclosed new information proving its own efficiency. But it has hidden the bigger picture. Guess what: I’ve got the bigger picture for you right here in this big old po…
ketanjoshi.co
August 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)?
Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts!
NEW POST -->>>
Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts!
NEW POST -->>>
Chat GPT is terrible for the environment, makes people dumber and runs on rampant plagiarism. But, it also refuses to recognize the existence of New South Wales so it's impossible to say if it's good or bad.
I asked for the app to generate a map
Of Australian states and territories with a ‘r’ in them. To be fair, despite announcing itself as ChatGPT 5, I suspect this is still 4.5.
Of Australian states and territories with a ‘r’ in them. To be fair, despite announcing itself as ChatGPT 5, I suspect this is still 4.5.
August 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Chat GPT is terrible for the environment, makes people dumber and runs on rampant plagiarism. But, it also refuses to recognize the existence of New South Wales so it's impossible to say if it's good or bad.
"Sir I have asked you to stop being cruel to children. If you refuse to do so you will leave me with no choice other than to ask you nicely again."
We can protect national security and public safety — the reasons why ICE was created in the first place — while minimizing cruelty, especially to children.
August 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"Sir I have asked you to stop being cruel to children. If you refuse to do so you will leave me with no choice other than to ask you nicely again."
Look who I saw yesterday: Fluffy escaped an emu farm and moved into the conservation area next door.
Now they occasionally pop out to say hello to mountain bikers or go for a jog with the local Parkrun group.
Rangers monitor them and report that they are healthy and happy.
Now they occasionally pop out to say hello to mountain bikers or go for a jog with the local Parkrun group.
Rangers monitor them and report that they are healthy and happy.
August 3, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Look who I saw yesterday: Fluffy escaped an emu farm and moved into the conservation area next door.
Now they occasionally pop out to say hello to mountain bikers or go for a jog with the local Parkrun group.
Rangers monitor them and report that they are healthy and happy.
Now they occasionally pop out to say hello to mountain bikers or go for a jog with the local Parkrun group.
Rangers monitor them and report that they are healthy and happy.
Whether this is true or not is beside the point. The point is that anyone who didn't immediately condemn Israel should never be allowed to forget that they ran cover for a genocide and the murder of children.
I read the "Biden was old" book and the most heart breaking, infuriating revelation was that, in her refusal to appear disloyal (in large part bc the Biden team never trusted her) Harris swallowed her greatest differentiation from him:
That she vehemently opposed the handling of the Gazan siege.
That she vehemently opposed the handling of the Gazan siege.
COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to?
HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.
HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.
August 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Whether this is true or not is beside the point. The point is that anyone who didn't immediately condemn Israel should never be allowed to forget that they ran cover for a genocide and the murder of children.
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"How I Fucked Up The Entire Earth" by Kamala Harris Soars Past 800 Copies In First Week
July 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"How I Fucked Up The Entire Earth" by Kamala Harris Soars Past 800 Copies In First Week
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Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”
July 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
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Politicians love talking about the pressure that trans people are under like it's a weather system and not something that their friends created because going on X the Everything App made them insane.
Today, our capital proudly marks seven years of London Trans+ Pride.
As trans rights come under increasing pressure across the UK, this year’s march is a vital reminder: London is a city that stands for equality, dignity and pride - for everyone. 🏳️⚧️
As trans rights come under increasing pressure across the UK, this year’s march is a vital reminder: London is a city that stands for equality, dignity and pride - for everyone. 🏳️⚧️
July 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Politicians love talking about the pressure that trans people are under like it's a weather system and not something that their friends created because going on X the Everything App made them insane.
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By ratting on Jesse Ventura's unionization efforts, Hulk Hogan denied all of his coworkers, and generations of performers who came after him, insurance and a retirement fund, and in that, shares in responsibility for the early deaths of several other wrestlers.
July 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
By ratting on Jesse Ventura's unionization efforts, Hulk Hogan denied all of his coworkers, and generations of performers who came after him, insurance and a retirement fund, and in that, shares in responsibility for the early deaths of several other wrestlers.
Say what you want about Hulk Hogan, but he showed the world that it's ok to be a massive racist piece of shit.
July 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Say what you want about Hulk Hogan, but he showed the world that it's ok to be a massive racist piece of shit.
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The Tesla diner menu lists its bacon as “Epic bacon,” in case you got confused about whether these guys were giant losers
July 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM
The Tesla diner menu lists its bacon as “Epic bacon,” in case you got confused about whether these guys were giant losers
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If you don’t want to form government why are you in politics
Dean Winter continues to rule out Greens deal in wake of election blow
Winter said it is crucial that the new parliament works collaboratively…
pulsetasmania.com.au
July 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
If you don’t want to form government why are you in politics
You know what's good? Taking a Monday off so you can ride your bike. Absolute 10/10 stuff.
July 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
You know what's good? Taking a Monday off so you can ride your bike. Absolute 10/10 stuff.